Word: abreast
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They lined up the convicts and the disarmed guards, two abreast, drove them at a run four miles into the woods, the leaders riding horseback. In a thicket they stopped, conferred on the direction of flight, took the convicts' tobacco, turned them loose. Conley with five others headed south. Loftin moved west. Through the afternoon 104 convicts and guards straggled back to the prison...
...length is 300 paces, and its width eight paces; so that ten mounted men can, without inconvenience, ride abreast." So wrote young Marco Polo after he first saw the bridge of Lukouchiao in the year 1277. But this same bridge, still standing and now named for the Venetian traveler, will be more remembered in history for a fateful incident which happened one hot, fretful summer night, 660 years later...
...addition to those of territorial aggrandizement, put forth a unique reason. "How could a people like ours, with all our energy, remain outside of a great contest like the present one, in which all the great peoples of Europe are participating? Italy must enter the conflict to keep abreast of the changing times. One of the most important reasons that is leading Italy into the war is the moral reason...
Disciplinary power in the College is held by the Administrative Board, the Faculty's judicial body, which not only passes on individual cases, but makes "recommendation to the Faculty on general educational matters" and preserves continuity of policy. Since few members keep abreast of student peccadillos, the Board acts on information submitted by Deans Hanford and Leighton, and usually follows their recommendations; though it is by no means a "rubber stamp" for them...
...conclusion, the dance band is today a big business enterprise. Fashions in music, like fashions in clothes change year after year. So the music makers must keep abreast of the times. Years ago we called dance music rag time. A few years later, we called it Jazz. Today it is known as swing, and tomorrow, who knows...